Word: montes
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Sprawling Empire. Fleet Street's second Canadian invasion is not so drastic as Lord Beaverbrook's arrival from Mont real 52 years ago. But Thomson's takeover is even more impressive. His empire now sprawls across three continents and at least half a dozen countries. Besides his newspapers, it includes radio and TV stations, book publishing houses, and so many magazines and trade journals that Thomson himself has lost track and can only guess at the total. His best guess is "over 80." The week he left for Moscow, Thomson rounded his newspaper collection...
...French freighter Mont Blanc, en route from New York to Bordeaux, entered the Halifax roadstead on the morning of Dec. 6. The Mont Blanc was only a 3,000-tonner, but its cargo was something more than mere ammunition. Every usable square foot of cargo space was crammed with raw explosives-200 tons of TNT and 2,300 tons of lyddite, which is more powerful than TNT. On deck, reeking like an Esso station, were 35 tons of benzole in drums stacked three high...
Sizzling Waves. A Norwegian freighter, the Imo, was coming the other way through the Halifax Narrows that morning. The two ships went into a clumsy dance like people trying to pass on a sidewalk. When they ultimately collided, the Norwegian ship gashed the bows of the Mont Blanc and broke open some of the benzole drums. The fluid ran out over the deck and poured down into the hold. The Norwegian ship disengaged, and, as steel scraped steel, sparks ignited the benzole. The Mont Blanc blazed fire for a full 25 minutes before the explosion. The French crew abandoned ship...
Tragic Anecdotes. The explosion shot a half-ton piece of the Mont Blanc's anchor two miles through the air. It pulled a sailor off the deck of a nearby merchantman, and tossed him up to the top of a hill half a mile away. Somehow he lived. It tore rocks up from the bottom of the harbor and sent them raining from on high. It sucked up so much water that divers working 22 ft. down elsewhere in the harbor suddenly found themselves standing chest-deep and wallowing for their lives before the onrush of a tidal wave...
...card parties are certainly a nuisance, but by no means the worst. In Phenix City and Montgomery, Ala., and in Butte, Mont., Columbus, Ga., and Greenville, S., city fathers have put through ordinances requiring retailers who carry Communist-made goods to buy a permit (up to $5,000) and to post signs in their stores proclaiming that they are "licensed to sell Communist merchandise.'' In some cases, local Chambers of Commerce privately shudder over the consequences, but feel helpless to do anything about the pressures...